See the Destruction of New Jersey's Coastline on an Interactive Map
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Rebecca J. Rosen is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic. She was previously an associate editor at The Wilson Quarterly, where she spearheaded the magazine's In Essence section.
Aerial photos from NOAA of a devastated state More »
Fake Sandy photos are a dime a dozen, but video footage is tougher to manipulate, and therefore more reliable. More »
Are your feet wet? Perhaps you need some "rainy-day shoes from China-land." More »
The hyperventilation of the emergency news cycle was not born with CNN or Twitter. More »
This thing is huge. More »
The New York Times reports that dying satellites threaten our ability to forecast storms in the years ahead. More »
Computer analysis of a piece of foil reveals audio captured by a Thomas Edison-invented phonograph in St. Louis in 1878. More »
And that's something of a challenge for the collaborative encyclopedia going forward More »
The VISTA telescope in northern Chile had compiled the largest catalog of the stars swirling around the core of our galaxy. More »
A photography project reminds us that soldiers surrendered and prisoners marched on the same streets we walk along every day. More »
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn: Highlights from the last decade of space photography More »
When should a transnational social-media company respect the laws of the land and when should they ignore them? More »
Never has a trip across Los Angeles looked so beautiful. More »
On a 1956 game show, a man appeared who had been present at Ford's Theatre on the night of April 14, 1865. More »
A satirical site is asking for your 15 cents to support the Lincoln-Johnson ticket -- "less than the cost of a green turtle soup!" More »
Sometimes it's easy to forget just how big the sun is. More »
On a day that honors one of the (female) pioneers of computer science, a round-up of our work on women in technology. More »
Little of what Violentacrez told Gawker's Adrian Chen can help us understand what makes someone troll. More »
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